Package Management Tools

pip

• consume requirements.txt
• default to global environment

poetry

• github
• requires Py3.7
• consume pyproject.toml
• Recommended by numpy

  Use Poetry as the most well-maintained tool that provides a dependency resolver and environment management capabilities in a similar fashion as conda does.

pipenv

pipenv creates and manages it's own virtual environments in a project with/without an existing requirements.txt

• >requirements.txt by pipenv requirements
• <requirements.txt

flit

• consume pyproject.toml

pdm

• cannot be recognized in Powershell

# install
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdm-project/pdm/main/install-pdm.py | python3 -

# uninstall
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdm-project/pdm/main/install-pdm.py | python3 - --remove